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Riverside Scene

2021

Tyler Mitchell

(American, b. 1995)
Culture
America
Medium
inkjet print
Measurements
Framed: 163.8 x 205.7 x 6.3 cm (64 1/2 x 81 x 2 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 2021.178
Edition
Edition AP1 of 3, with 2 APs
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

In 2018 at age twenty-three, Tyler Mitchell was the first Black photographer to shoot a cover for Vogue in the magazine’s 126-year history.

Description

Born and raised in Atlanta, Tyler Mitchell in this staged scene transforms the Georgia landscape, a place of historical trauma for Black people, into an Eden that offers them instead leisure, refuge, and rootedness. Mitchell imbued the image with a soft focus and misty golden glow that evoke the languor of a humid summer day in Georgia and the haziness of an imagined memory.
A horizontally oriented inkjet print depicts figures with medium-dark skin tones in a sunny, grassy landscape. In the foreground, three people sit on a red-striped blanket among yellow wildflowers. To the left, three people stand at the edge of a brown river. On the right, three figures sit in chairs. In the middle ground, a person stands at an easel and two people stand near a swing beneath tall pine trees.

Riverside Scene

2021

Tyler Mitchell

(American, b. 1995)
America

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